On this page you'll find the book reviews posted on the website, listed chronologically, from most recent to the oldest.
Tricycle Founder’s New Memoir Spotlights Her Personal Struggle to Grow in the Dharma as She Helped Grow American Buddhism (Ira Rifkin, August 12, 2024)
A review of David McMahan’s new book, ‘Rethinking Meditation’ (Mike Slott, September 23, 2023)
Rethinking not-self: a critical review of Jay Garfield’s ‘Losing Ourselves’ (Mike Slott, April 6, 2023)
A review of ‘Black Buddhists and the Black Radical Tradition’ (Rhonda Magee, July 1, 2022)
A missed opportunity: a review of ‘Secularizing Buddhism’ (Mike Slott, August 15, 2021)
A review of ‘Reimagining Zen in a Secular age: Charles Taylor and Zen Buddhism in the West’ (James M. Shields, June 29, 2021)
A review of Winton Higgins’s ‘Revamp: writings on secular Buddhism’ (Alex Carr, May 18, 2021)
A review of Lenorë Lambert’s The Buddha for modern minds: a non-religious guide to the Buddha and his teachings (Winton Higgins, April 19, 2021)
What Bhikkhu Analayo got wrong: a review of ‘Superiority Conceit in Buddhist Traditions’ (Mike Slott, March 13, 2021)
Owen Flanagan on the core elements of a naturalistic Buddhism (Mike Slott, October 2, 2020)
Why Buddhism is NOT a science of the mind: a review of Evan Thompson’s ‘Why I am not a Buddhist’ (Bernat Font, June 10, 2020)
A review of Evan Thompson’s ‘Why I am not a Buddhist’ (Mike Slott, March 17, 2020)
Review of Rhonda V. Magee’s ‘The Inner Work of Racial Justice’ (Mike Slott, January
Winton Higgins on Ron Purser’s ‘McMindfulness’ (Winton Higgins, October 7, 2019)
A review of ‘After Buddhism’ – focussing dharma for years to come (Winton Higgins, June 9, 2018)
Taking a second look at ‘Radical Dharma’ through the lens of social class (Mike Slott, May 9, 2017)
A Review of Rick Heller’s ‘Secular Meditation’ (Sylvie Venassie, April 1, 2016)
A review of Sam Harris’ ‘Waking Up – the illusory nature of the self’ (Mark Knickelbine, November 12, 2014)